Speedometer attachment for cycles.



A. W. WESSOLEGK. SPEEDOMETBR ATTACHMENT FOR CYCLES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 15, 1913.

Patented May 19, 1914.

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A. W. WESSOLEGK. SPEEDOMETBR ATTACHMENT FOR CYCLES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16, 1913.

Patented May 19, 1914.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed September 15, 1913.

IatentedMay 19, 1914. Serial No. 789,785.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS W. Wnsso- LEGK, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Speedometer Attachments for Cycles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descr1p tion.

This invention relates to means for supporting a speedometer or the like upon the handle bars of a cycle, such as a motor cycle for instance, so that the speedometer is centrally located and faces the rider and will remain in this position whichever way the handle bars may be turned, as in rounding a curve.

A preferable structural embodiment is described in detail in the following speeification taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part thereof,

and in whieh- Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the handle bar and part of the frame of a cycle with the speedometer present invention applied thereto. a View in front elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the parts with the speedometer removed, showmg in dotted lines the position occupied by the parts when the handle bar is turned. Fig. 4 is a View in side elevation of the bracket to which the speedometer is swiveled and by which it is supported on the handle bar. Fig. 5 is an end view of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Figs. 6 and 7 are views in .front and. side elevation of the supporting base attached to the speedometer casing and swiveling in the supporting bracket.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 indicates a part of the main frame of the cycle, and 2 the tubular front standard in which the post 3 of the handle bar and the post of the front wheel fork are mounted in the usual manner. The handle bar 4t is of standard construction and is carried by its supporting post 3. Attached to the handle bar 4 at a point slightly removed from its center, is a speedometer supporting bracket 5, which bracket is clamped to the handle bar at this point by suitable means, such as by the sectional clamping plates (3 and 7, the former being preferably integrally formed with the bracket 5. These plates are attachment 1 of the Fig. 2 is clamped together and held rigid on the handle bar by any suitable fastening means, as the bolts shown. The bracket 5 extends rearwardly and laterally from its attaching base 6, so that its end 8 may be brought in line with the supporting post 3 of the handle bar, and, therefore, positioned in the axis of rotation thereof. This end 8 is centrally apertured as at 9, to journal on a hub portion carried by a speedometer carrying support. This support is preferably in the form of a base plate 12 having an annular flange 13 formed on its lower face and having a hub portion 1-1 extendingtherefrom, this portion being reduced in diameter adjacent its extremity and threaded as at 15. The upper face of the plate 12 is secured against the under face of the speedometer casing 10 by suitable means, as screws, its hub portion 14 extending through the aperture 9 in the supporting bracket with its flange 13 resting upon the upper face of the end 8 thereof. The threaded extremity 15 of the hub extends through and beyond the lower face of the apertured end 8, the hub portion 14 being held within the aperture 9 of this support by means of a washer 16 hearing against the under face of the end 8 of the support, and a nut 17 engaging the threaded end 15. The usual driving shaft 11, preferably somewhat flexible, extends from the speedometer 10 to one of the cycle wheels, preferably the rear wheel.

By the arrangement described, it will be seen that the speedometer is supported centrally of the cycle and in the line of axis of the handle bar post. The driving shaft .11 is sufficiently stilt to maintain the speedometer 10 and its casing in the same position at all times relatively to the frame 1. When the handle bar 4 is turned by the rider, as in rounding a curve, the apertured end 8 of the supporting bracket 1 will turn on the hub 14, this hub remaining in the same position relatively to the eyes of the rider. In Fig. shown in dotted lines the position of the bracket when the handle bar is turned. The axis of the bore 9 is positioned. at an angle to the horizontal, but substantially in line with the axis of the inclined handle bar post 3, so that while the position of the end i 8 may change, the center of its swiveling aperture 9 Wlll always remain in the line of 3 of the drawings, I have V the speedometer scope of axis of the post no matter in which direction the handle bar is turned, and the speedometer, therefore, will always face the rider. The driving shaft 11 of the speedometer, is of course, steadied in any suitable manner as for example, by being loosely strapped to the bar 1 of the cycle frame so that it will not swing loosely.

While I have herein described and shown a specific embodiment of my device, it will, of course, be understood that the same is susceptible of variation both in structure and the relative arrangement of its parts within the spirit of the invention and the the appended claims. By the term speedometer I intend, of course, to include also such devices as are termed .odometers whether used alone or incombination with speedometers.

It will be understood that in the preferable construction, the driving shaft 11 is the means most favorably adapted for holding against rotary movement relative to the frame of the cycle while the so-called steering column which comprises the head of the front fork is being turned.

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the in combination with a cycle and its frame, a handle bar having a supporting post journaled in said frame, a bracket mounted on said bar and extending over and in the line of axis of said post, a speedometer or the like 'swiveled in said bracket and substantially in the line of axis of said bar post,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for character described,

five cents each, by addressing the and a driving connection leadingto said speedometer and arranged to hold the same against any substantial turning movement relatively to said frame.

2. In a device of the character described, in combination with a cycle and its frame, a handle bar having a supporting post journaled in said frame in alinement with the supporting post of a steering wheel fork, a bracket arranged to be fixedly carried by said handle bar at one side of said post and having an arm extending over and in the line of the axis of said post, a speedometer or the like, having a supporting base provided with a hub portion and having a driving connection with the rear wheel of the cycle, said bracket arm being apertured in the line of axis of said bar post and swivel ing on said hub portion of said speedometer.

3. In a device of the character described for supporting speedometers and the like on a cycle frame, a bracket arranged to be adapted to a part of the cycle adjacent to the steering column of the front wheel, said bracket having an arm arranged to extend. over the top of said column, means for supporting and journaling the speedometer on said arm and in a line substantially with the axis of the steering column, and means for holding the speedometer against rotation relatively to the cycle frame while the steering column is being turned.

' AUGUSTUS W. WESSOLECK.

\Vitncsses ELIZABETH A. Monnin, R0131. J. P. Nuss.

Commissioner of Eatents,

Washington, D. C. 

